Non-refillable bottle.



J. PILLIG.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 4. 1912.

Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

IINVENTDH EIY WITNESSES:

ATT'UHNEY COLUMBIA PLANDGRAPH C0..WA5MINGTON. D- C.

JOHN PILLIG, 0F AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1912.

Application filed March 4, 1912. Serial No. 681,345.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN PILLIG, a citi zen of the United States,residing at Amsterdam, county of Montgomery, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles,of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novelconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter described andsubsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the referencecharacters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figurestherein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a central vertical section of the neck-endof a non-refillable bottle embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view inperspective of the perforated inner guard for the valve. Fig. 3 is aview in perspective of the valve detached.

The principal object of the invention is to prevent or renderimpracticable the refilling of a bottle.

Referring to the drawing wherein the invention is shown in preferredform, 1, represents a cap screwed at, 2, upon the neck, 15. of a bottle16. A spring-catch, 3, is located in a niche, 4, in the outside of theneck of the bottle, and is adapted to spring into a niche, 6, in theinner wall of the cap when the cap has been screwed down to its properposition in engagement with the packingring 17. The springing of thecatch, 3, into the niche, 6, looks the cap and neck of the bottle toprevent relative rotative movement thereof. A valve-case, 7, is screwedinto the cap, 1, leaving a narrow space, 18, between the outer end ofthe neck of the bottle and the inner end of the valve-case. The valve,8, seats upon the outer end of the valvecase, and has a skeleton stem,9, adapted to play within a central opening in the valvecase. The valveis protected by an inner perforated guard, 12, having hook-shaped arms,19, seated in niches in the outside of the valve-case, and an outerapertured guard, 13, sealed 0r molded in the outer end of the cap. Thevalve is normally held to its seat by means of a weighted ball, 10,connected with the valve-stem by means of a flexible link or cord, 20,which passes through the narrow opening, 18, between the neck of thebottle and the valve-case. The ball, 10, thus connected with the valve,plays in an annular chamber, 21, between similarly ins clinedsubstantially parallel walls, 11 and 22, and exterior of the neck of thebottle. The ball, 10, is thus confined within the chamber, '21, outsideof the path of flow of the liquid from the bottle; and, by reason of itsflexible connection, 20, with the valve-stem, said ball will alwaysengage the inclined surface, 22, on the neck of the bottle to hold thevalve to its seat until the bottle has been tipped sufficiently for theball to rest against the inclined surface, 11, on the cap. When theinclined surface, 11, on the lower side of the cap of the tipped bottleassumes a downwardly inclined position, the ball will roll or slide downthe same to permit the valve to open for the escape of the contents ofthe bottle.

Each of the walls, 11 and 22, converges toward the outer end of thebottle, the ball being thus retained between two similarly convergentwalls or surfaces.

The flexible connection, 20, being free to play in the opening, 18, theball, 10, is free to gravitate to the lowest part of the chamber, 2],whenever the bottle is tipped.

That I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. Anon-refillable bottle having a valve controlling its outlet-passage, andprovided with an annular chamber surrounding said passage andcommunicating therewith, said chamber having inner and outer wallssimilarly convergent toward the outer end of the bottle; a weightconfined within said annular chamber; and a flexible connection betweensaid weight and said valve adapted to play freely in the space throughwhich said chamber communicates with said outlet passage.

2. The combination with a bottle having a neck formed with a convergentsurface on its outer end; a cap secured upon the neck of the bottle, andhaving an interior surface respectively on the interior of the cap'convergent toward the outer end of the botand a guard located withinsaid cap outside 10 tle; a valve-case secured within the cap, with ofsaid Valve.

afree space between said valve-case and the In testimony whereof, I havehereunto set outer end of the neck of the bottle; a valve; my hand this28th day of February, 1912. a weight confined in the space between saidJOHN PILLIG convergent surfaces; at flexible connection between saidweight and said Valve adapted Witnesses:

to play in said free space between the valve- JOHN P. FITZGIBBON, caseand outer end of the neck of the bottle; WILLIAM H. POTTER.

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